Mon 9/28/2020 4:00 PM
Judy,
I’m waiting for the pre-holiday discount. ? Lol.
I’m still unclear on how this differs from the tests done with J.P. and Michelle’s DNA. I’m willing to take it on faith that using a different company (Ancestry, rather than 23andMe) and a test we have in common may make a difference.
Stay tuned and be patient. I will do this for us a.s.a.p. As they say, “curiosity killed the cat and satisfaction brought it back.” But, only 9 times, right? Lol.
John, IV
Mon 9/28/2020 9:38 PM
Judy,
I picked up on a possibility you mentioned in your last post.
Thus, I have been trying all afternoon and evening to get 23andMe data to Ancestry. Apparently, this is not possible.
A more positive development is my search resulted in my locating a login and password for my brother Jeff’s DNA test. What is most interesting to us is that our ancestors were not just from the Czech Republic; Poland also fits nicely into our background. We have a mix of Northwestern (49.5%) and Eastern European (41.9%) heritage. I’m attaching a copy of Jeff’s Composition Report, where it mentions Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland.
I’m encouraged by this. I hope you are too. ?
John, IV
Tue 10/6/2020 1:01 PM
Nancy,
$64,000 question. Where were these two photos taken?
Your Cousin
Nancy and Beth,
I just finished asking you both to see if we can address the question, “Where did our ancestors come from in Europe.” There is another equally compelling question, “Why Did Czech Immigrants Come to America?”
The first major immigration of Czechs occurred in 1848 when the Czech “Forty Eighters” fled to the United States to escape the Austrian Habsburgs’ political persecution. Unlike previous immigration, new immigrants were predominantly Catholic.
My father was raised Catholic while his children were not. I recollect that he left the Catholic Church over getting someone (his mother?) buried in the Church Cemetery. There was some issue about the last rites. I was too young to understand at the time and never followed up.
Present-day Slavic people are classified into:
Do you know in which group we belong to? I don’t.
Against the wishes of many of its 15 million citizens, Czechoslovakia today split into two countries: Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
To quote a Czech Genealogist, Kate Challis recently posted the following:
“The 19th-century pattern was for Czechs who emigrated to the United States from the old country to do so in patterns of chain migration. They came together, lived together, worked together, migrated together, married together, and stayed together even through terrible marriages. They had many children together, they died together, and they are buried together.”
Slovak is the language spoken in Slovakia, a country in Central Europe. It is a language from the Slavic language family. It is very similar to Czech, and Czechs and Slovaks understand each other quite well when they speak their own language. Polish and Sorbian are also quite similar. This latter fact, along with Jeff’s DNA test, suggests that Judy Spivak, a valued contributor to My Cousins, is our relative through her Polish father.
My father could speak a little Czech. He understood it, but he did not know how to write it. He was what is called a heritage speaker.
John, IV
